[XeTeX] opentype arabic font rendering in mac osx (snow leopard and lion)

Vafa Khalighi vafa018 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 13:31:55 CEST 2011


As far as I know, this only happens with Adobe Arabic. Create a ttf version
of it and use that instead otf one.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Youssef Cherem <ycherem at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've tried for weeks now to open pdfs created with xelatex with opentype
> arabic fonts, but they don't render well (letters appear jumbled) with
> preview or other pdf viewers -- except, strangely enough, with Texwork's pdf
> viewer.
>
> In Pages or Word, opentype arabic doesn't make ligatures, which makes them
> useless for writing Arabic. With TextEditor, I can get ligatures without any
> problem.
>
> AAT fonts, on the contrary, are ok.
>
> Is there any way of correcting (or at least circumventing) this problem?
>
> Below are two examples of how things look in Texworks:
>
> And the same pdf in Viewer:
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:
>  http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/attachments/20110803/2cafe524/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: arabic in texworks.jpg
Type: image/jpg
Size: 69399 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/attachments/20110803/2cafe524/attachment-0002.jpg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: arabic in viewer.jpg
Type: image/jpg
Size: 56417 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/attachments/20110803/2cafe524/attachment-0003.jpg>


More information about the XeTeX mailing list